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HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

I’m crying my beautiful husband has wrapped the most limp wristed pathetic sickly blunt in the world

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

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This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So - what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

So, I have to take that and sit with it for a while.  But in the meantime, I thought perhaps I should post this, because maybe my friend, her friend, and I are the only clueless people who did not realise this, but maybe we’re not.  Maybe some of you have tried to embrace the arbitrary size you are, but still couldn’t find a cute pair of jeans, and didn’t know why.

This is so cool?? I'd be so scared to sleep with it though, I'd be so scared of breaking something

i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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🌼✨ 7 Ways to Welcome Springtime ✨ 🌼

• Clean something. There’s a reason for ‘Spring cleaning’ — this is such a wonderful time to clear out old objects and ‘refresh’ your commonly used spaces! Vacuum thoroughly, wash all of your bedding, dust the corners and windowsills, spritz your pillows and closet with eucalyptus spray, wipe down the mirrors, add lavender satchels to your dresser drawers — Anything you can do to make your area feel new.

• Decorate your spaces to reflect the season. One of the best methods of bringing the aura of a certain time of year into your *own* realm is through means of decorating! Gather the first bouquet, place yellow or baby pink candles upon your surfaces, change your desktop or iPhone wallpaper to something whimsical (think of artworks by Gustave Doré, Beatrix Potter, Edouard Bisson, or Claude Monet), adorn the shelves with bunny plushies or elven figurines, fill the air with lovely classical music or recorded nature sounds, or string some fairy lights around your bed!

• Try something new. This doesn’t have to be anything huge! — It can be as simple as breaking in a new journal with just a few words, taking a quick walk on an unventured path, or trying an herbal tea blend that you’ve never drank before.

• Out with the old. There’s something so enticing about gathering and getting rid of certain items which no longer suit your fancy: Drop off a bag or two of donatable things at a secondhand shop, clearing your space of their influence + feeling lovely at the thought of someone else potentially giving them new life.

• Refresh your skin. Embrace the essence of Spring by cleansing your body’s surface through extra-soft means: Lavender sheet masks or body scrubs, rose facial oils or sprays, herb-filled bath bombs, Burt’s Bees facial scrubs and hand treatments, floral-scented body lotions and butters, etc.

• Focus on nature. This could mean a large number of things to partake in! Begin to tend to a succulent; join a community garden; brew your own Sun Tea; cleanse your crystals; watch a nature documentary; open the windows; sit in a park; diffuse some essential oils; make plans to visit a botanical garden or butterfly santuary.

• Allow yourself to feel like a child again. What’s wrong with opening your heart to the pure magic in the air once more; in a manner similar to that once held by little-you? Revisit old childhood favourites! Read the ‘Peter Rabbit’ stories, drink a big cup of chamomile flower tea, sit amongst the dandelions (and make wishes upon them), watch a few ‘Winnie the Pooh’ animated classics, draw with sidewalk chalk, weave a flower crown. Hold near to you the sweet softness of this season, welcoming it with open arms and wide eyes! ~ 🧺✨🌿🐇🌸